Kopel's new book Firearms Law & the Second Amendment; Regulation, Rights, and
Policy has just been published. It is the first law
school textbook on the Second Amendment. Buy from Amazon. Publisher webpage for book. Authors' website for book; includes Table of Contents, and Preface.

Waking to a Dangerous World. America's 1st Freedom. March 2015. Violence around the world is causing a change in firearm policies in many countries, and also a pro-gun shift in attitude here in the United States.

International Gun Control
Debate. Kopel debates gun control policy as it relates to international law
at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. YouTube.com. 58
minutes. Feb. 12, 2013.

In their own words: Does anything need to be done to control transfers to (and misuse of weapons by)
non-state actors? Short Kopel essay in a collection of several. Small
Arms and Human Security Bulletin, June 2004, page 6. PDF format.

Self-Defense: The Equalizer. 15 Forum
for Applied Research and Public Policy 92 (No. 4, Winter 2000). Survey of
gun control polices and results in Japan, Britain, Canada, and Australia. With
Linda Gorman. PDF
version. Reprinted in James D. Toor, ed., Guns and Crime. At Issue (Greenhaven
Pr., 2004).

Does the Right to Bear Arms Impede or Promote Economic Development? 6
Engage 85 (2005, issue 1)(journal of The Federalist Society). With Paul Gallant &
Joanne D. Eisen. Using case studies from Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa,
this article refutes the claim of gun prohibition advocates that the presence of
"small arms" is a cause of economic underdevelopment. The article also details
the harmful effects of UN policy regarding malaria and AIDS in the Third
World. PDF version. Html version.

Cutting Through the Fog. The role that firearms, malaria, AIDS, and kleptocracy play in development
failure. America's 1st Freedom,
January 2007.

Is there a human right of self-defense? Discussion of the natural rights foundation of international law, and U.N.'s
claim that there is no right of self-defense. iVoices.org podcast. March 29,
2011. MP3.

Human Rights and Gun Confiscation. 26 Quinnipiac Law Review
385(2008). PDF. With
Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights abuses in gun
confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South Africa's
quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most complete
collection ever presented of international survey data about why people
in various countries own guns.

"Is
There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? Comparative Results
from 59 Nations." 13 Texas Review of Law & Politics 1(2008). With Carlisle Moody & Howard Nemerov. There are
59 nations for which data about per capita gun ownership are
available. This Working Paper examines the relationship between gun
density and several measures of freedom and prosperity: the Freedom
House ratings of political rights and civil liberty, the
Transparency International Perceived Corruption Index, the World
Bank Purchasing Power Parity ratings, and the Heritage Foundation
Index of Economic Freedom. The data suggest that the relationships
between gun ownership rates and these other measures are complex.
The data show that (although exceptions can be found) the nations
with the highest rates of gun ownership tend to have greater
political and civil freedom, greater economic freedom and
prosperity, and much less corruption than other nations. The
relationship only exists in for high-ownership countries. Countries
with medium rates of gun density generally scored no better or worse
than countries with the lowest levels of gun rates.

More guns, more freedom? Kopel's new law
review article finding that nations with higher rates of gun
ownership tend to have higher levels of civil, political, and
economic freedom.
Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. Mar. 13, 2009. MP3.

How Many Global Deaths
from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid being used to
Promote the Arms Trade Treaty.5 NYU Journal of Law &
Liberty 672 (2010). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.

Lethal Laws. Book
review by Kopel in the New York Journal of International and Comparative Laws. Discusses
book showing the connection between gun prohibition and genocide.

The right to arms to resist genocide. Second Amendment Symposium, George Mason
University School of Law, Sept. 24, 2005. Windows Media hi low. QuickTime hi low.

Is
Resisting Genocide a Human Right? 81 Notre Dame Law Review1275(2006). Conducting an
in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also discussing other
genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of the international
community's response to genocides, such as "targeted sanctions" or international
peacekeeping forces. Examining international legal authorities such as the
Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the
International Court of Justice, the article demonstrates that groups which are
being subjected to genocide have a legal right of self-defense. International
treaties, Security Council arms embargoes, or national gun control laws cannot
lawfully be enforced in a manner which prevents self-defense resistance to a
genocide in progress, because under international law, the prohibition against
any form of complicity in genocide takes legal precedence over lesser laws. With
Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. In PDF.

Gun Bans & Genocide:
The Disarming Facts. How gun control has been used in the Darfur,
Sudan genocide. Genocide and United Nations disarmament in other African
countries. America's 1st Freedom,
August 2006. PDF. HTML.

The OAS Treaty: Blueprint for Dismantling the Second Amendment. Administration support for a dangerous international treaty shows its
disdain for the Constitution and America's law-abiding gun owners. America's 1st Freedom.
August 2009.

U.N.-Believable. By giving support to the negotiation and passage of a U.N. arms
trade treaty, the Obama administration is allowing foreign government to remake
the 2nd Amendment - and thus the United States - in their own image. America's
1st Freedom. June 2013.

The United Nations and the Second
Amendment. Gun Rights Policy Conference. St. Louis. Sept. 26, 2009. 10
minutes. YouTube.

U.N. To World:
You Have No Human Right to Self-Defense. Thwarted by the demise of its
global gun ban treaty, the United Nations declares the human right of
self-defense null and void. America's 1st Freedom, November 2006.

The UN's New Attack on Law-abiding American Gun Owners. How
the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly are moving towards
declaring the absence of sufficiently repressive American laws on gun
ownership and self-defense to be a violation of international human
rights. The Volokh Conspiracy. Sept. 13, 2006.

Human Rights and Gun Confiscation, 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 383 (2008). PDF. With
Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights abuses in gun
confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South Africa's
quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most complete
collection ever presented of international survey data about why people
in various countries own guns.

Human Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation
in East Africa. By Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen.
How U.N.-backed gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda have led
to murder, torture, and arson, and have turned tens of thousands of
pastoral tribespeople into starving refugees. Issue Backgrounder. In PDF. In HTML.

Microdisarmament:
The Consequences for Public Safety and Human Rights. UMKC Law Review (2005). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines UN-sponsored
programs to disarm people in Cambodia, Bougainville, Albania, Panama, Guatemala,
and Mali. In PDF. In HTML.

United Nations Gun Confiscation.
Kopel discusses the international
gun prohibition movement, and his new paper about human rights abuses in
the gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda. Podcast in MP3.

Human Rights and Gun Confiscation, 26
Quinnipiac Law Review383(2008). PDF. With
Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights abuses in gun
confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South Africa's
quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most complete
collection ever presented of international survey data about why people
in various countries own guns.

Dhimmitude and Disarmament, 18 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 305
(2008). PDF. Covers the Islamic world, from Persia to North Africa.

Is
Resisting Genocide a Human Right? 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1275 (2006).
Conducting an in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also
discussing other genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of
the international community's response to genocides, such as "targeted
sanctions" or international peacekeeping forces. Examining international
legal authorities such as the Genocide Convention, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Court of Justice, the
article demonstrates that groups which are being subjected to genocide
have a legal right of self-defense. International treaties, Security
Council arms embargoes, or national gun control laws cannot lawfully be
enforced in a manner which prevents self-defense resistance to a genocide
in progress, because under international law, the prohibition against any
form of complicity in genocide takes legal precedence over lesser laws.

Off Target. A 1989 college shooting in Montreal incited a $2 billion Canadian long gun
registry. Seventeen years later, another Montreal college shooting mocks the
failed registry. America's 1st Freedom. January 2007.

Cana-cerous. After a decade of
failure, Canada is taking steps to infect the rest of the world with its costly
gun-banning schemes. America's 1st Freedom, Dec. 2005. PDF. Html.

A Critique of Home Office Research Study 298 of 2006, Gun Crime: The
market in and use of illegal firearms. By Colin Greenwood. April 2007. A
careful dissection of a deeply flawed British government study promoting
more repressive laws against gun owners, notwithstanding the failures of
previous laws.

Lost Battles, Lost Rights.
How the British lost their right to arms in the twentieth century, by imposing one
"reasonable" law on another, until the right was extinguished. Pamphlet. July 16, 1999.

Fear
in Britain. They have no guns -- so they have a lot of crime. National Review Online. July 18, 2000. With Drs. Paul Gallant & Joanne
Eisen. This article was cited in a letterwhich 18 state Attorneys General wrote to U.S. Attorney General
John Ashcroft commending his recognition of the Second Amendment as an
individual right.

To Your Tents, O
Israel! The history of ancient kingdom of Israel, and how the
people created a strong central government for national security, but then
found that their own liberties were endangered by that government. And the
lessons that the American colonists and Founders drew from Israel's experience.
Liberty, April 2007. PDF.

Follow the
Leader. Israel and Thailand set an
example by arming teachers. Russia should follow, to prevent more hostage-taking
in schools. National Review Online. Sept. 3, 2004.

Why is this Woman Smiling? Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest painters of all time, also
contributed to society something far more valuable than the Mona Lisa--the
first self-igniting firearm. America's 1st Freedom, Oct. 2005. With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.

Human Rights and Gun
Confiscation. 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 383 (2008). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights
abuses in gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South
Africa's quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most
complete collection ever presented of international survey data about
why people in various countries own guns.

Human
Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation
in East Africa. By Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen.
How U.N.-backed gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda have led
to murder, torture, and arson, and have turned tens of thousands of
pastoral tribespeople into starving refugees. Issue Backgrounder. In PDF. In HTML.

United Nations Gun Confiscation.
Kopel discusses the international
gun prohibition movement, and his new paper about human rights abuses in
the gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda. Podcast in MP3.

Other

Mexico Comes Knocking. A seemingly ridiculous plan by the Mexican
government to sue U.S. gunmakers for drug-cartel violence south of the border
could spell doom for America's firearm industry. America's 1st Freedom.
Oct. 2011.

The Mark of "C". While
Anti-Gunners in Congress Hail Him as the New Zorro, President
Calderón Takes a Swipe at American Gun Rights. America's 1st
Freedom. August 2010.

Attorney General Holder calls for renewal of ban on so-called "assault
weapons" in order to help the Mexican government. Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast.
Feb. 27, 2009. MP3.

The Whole World is Watching. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's potential effect on Second Amendment rights. Discusses
Mexican government push for an American ban on so-called "assault
weapons." America's 1st Freedom. March 2009. PDF.

Human Rights and Gun
Confiscation. 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 383 (2008). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights
abuses in gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South
Africa's quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most
complete collection ever presented of international survey data about
why people in various countries own guns.

South Africa's
Deadly Disaster. The continuing saga of South Africa's dwindling gun
owners provides a case study of what gun-banners want to do in the United
States. America's 1st Freedom. March 2010.

Is
Resisting Genocide a Human Right? 81 Notre Dame Law Review 1275 (2006). Conducting an
in-depth study of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and also discussing other
genocides, this article details the inadequacy of many of the international
community's response to genocides, such as "targeted sanctions" or international
peacekeeping forces. Examining international legal authorities such as the
Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the
International Court of Justice, the article demonstrates that groups which are
being subjected to genocide have a legal right of self-defense. International
treaties, Security Council arms embargoes, or national gun control laws cannot
lawfully be enforced in a manner which prevents self-defense resistance to a
genocide in progress, because under international law, the prohibition against
any form of complicity in genocide takes legal precedence over lesser laws. With
Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.

The Guns of Sudan. Gun confiscation in South Sudan makes a bad situation for
human rights even worse. The New Ledger. July 7, 2009. With Paul
Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen.

Gun Bans & Genocide:
The Disarming Facts. How gun control has been used in the Darfur,
Sudan genocide. Genocide and United Nations disarmament in other African
countries. America's 1st Freedom,
August 2006. PDF. HTML.

Human Rights and Gun
Confiscation. 26 Quinnipiac Law Review 383 (2008). With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen. Examines human rights
abuses in gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda, and in South
Africa's quasi-confiscatory licensing law. Also provides the most
complete collection ever presented of international survey data about
why people in various countries own guns.

Human
Rights Atrocities: The Consequences of United Nations Gun Confiscation
in East Africa. By Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen.
How U.N.-backed gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda have led
to murder, torture, and arson, and have turned tens of thousands of
pastoral tribespeople into starving refugees. Independence Institute Issue Backgrounder. In PDF. In HTML.

United Nations Gun Confiscation.
Kopel discusses the international
gun prohibition movement, and his new paper about human rights abuses in
the gun confiscation programs in Kenya and Uganda. Podcast in MP3.

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